3 papers
cond-mat.soft2022
Fore-aft clearance controls how three-dimensional confinement affects micropropulsion
Suraj Kumar Kamarapu, Mehdi Jabbarzadeh, Henry Chien Fu
Systems of active particles are often affected by confinement due to nearby boundaries. Recently, there has been interest in the effect of confinement by complex three dimensional…
physics.flu-dyn2021
Modeling creeping flows in porous media using regularized Stokeslets
Suraj Kumar Kamarapu, Mehdi Jabbarzadeh, Henry Chien Fu
Flows in porous media in the low Reynolds number regime are often modeled by the Brinkman equations. Analytical solutions to these equations are limited to standard geometries. Fin…
physics.flu-dyn2020
A numerical method for inextensible elastic filaments in viscous fluids
Mehdi Jabbarzadeh, Henry C. Fu
The deformations of flagella are important in the motility of single- and multi-flagellated bacteria. Existing numerical methods have treated flagella as extensible filaments with…